__Comments may be made on this subject and will be posted upon approval - Your participation in sharing your thoughts are welcomed and will be enjoyed by many - Thank YouSome persons are exaggerators by temperament -- They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament -- They do not realize that "we always weaken what we exaggerate" Tryon EdwardsExaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood, and nearly as blameable -- H BallouExaggeration as to rhetoric, is using a vast force to lift a feather; as to morals and character, it is using falsehood to lift one's self out of the confidence of his fellowmen -- PagetThere are some persons who would not for their lives tell a direct and willful lie, but who so exaggerate that it seems as if for their lives they could not tell the exact truth -- PagetNever speak by superlatives; for in so doing you will be likely to wound either truth or prudence -- Exaggeration is neither thoughtful, wise, nor safe -- It is a proof of the weakness of the understanding, or the want of discernment of him that utters it, so that even when he speaks the truth, he soon finds it is received with partial, or even utter unbelief -- Hume Read More Link On Right

_Comments may be made on this subject and will be posted upon approval - Your participation in sharing your thoughts are welcomed and will be enjoyed by many - Thank YouWHAT IS DIFFICULTY? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a stimulus to men -- Samuel Warren

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them -- Goethe_It has been the glory of the great masters in all arts to confront and to overcome; and when they had overvc0me the first difficulty, to turn it into an instrument for new conquests over new difficulties; thus to enable then to extend the empire of science - BurkeDifficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the Supreme guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, and loves us better too. -- He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill -- Our antagonist is our helper -- BurkeThe weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties -- hope is born in the long night of watching and fears - Faith visits us in defeat and disappointment, amid the consciousness of earthly frailty and the crumbling tombstones of mortality -- E H ChapinIt is not every calamity that is a curse - and early adversity is often a blessing - Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles -- SharpRead More Link On Right

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Common Sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon -- It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life -- Tryon Edwards

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it -- Persian Proverb

Fine sense, and exalted sense, are not half as useful as common sense -- there are forty men of wit to one man of sense -- He that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for readier change -- Pope

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know ; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is; and despise affectation -- Walpole

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done -- C E Stowe

"Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death" But with common sense, it is wisdom; with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue,and life, and peace -- Farrar

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Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard - it is in insignificant matters, and in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others, and denies nothing to itself -- Arthur Schopenhauer

We want the spirit of America to be efficient: we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency -- clear disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought -- Woodrow Wilson

When the late J P Morgan was asked what he considered the best bank collateral, he replied, "Character"

A man may be outwardly successful all his life long, and die hollow and worthless as a puff-ball; and he may be externally defeated all his life long, and die in the royalty of a kingdom established within him -- A man's true estate of power and riches, is to be in himself; not in his dwelling, or position, or external relations, but in his own essential character -- that is the realm in which he is to live, if he is to live as a Christian man -- H W Beecher

A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion -- it is not inherited from parents; it is not created by external advantages; it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station; but it is the result of one's own endeavors -- the fruit and reward of good principles manifested in a course of virtuous and honorable action -- J Hawes

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Words are both better and worse than thoughts - they express them - and add to them -- they give them power for good or evil - they start them on an endless flight - for instruction and comfort and blessing -- or for injury and sorrow and ruin -- Tryon Edwards

When you have spoken the word - it reigns over you -- When it is unspoken you reign over it -- Arabian Proverb

You may tame the wild beast - the conflagration of the forest will cease when all the timber and the dry wood are consumed -- but you cannot arrest the progress of that cruel word which you uttered carelessly yesterday or this morning -- FW Robertson

A man cannot speak but he judges and reveals himself -- With his will or against his will - he draws his portrait to the eye of others by every word -- Every opinion reacts on him who utters it -- EmersonRead More Link On Right

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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who can not read-- Mark TwainDisappointment -- too many people miss the silver lining because they are expecting gold -- Maurice Seltter

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; its ten to one if they hang long together -- Douglas Jerrold

Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it -- Eliza Tabor

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater -- Edward G Bulwer-LyttonDoubt -- There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking -- Alfred Korzybski

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